DMN: Dallas-area physicists had a hand in discovery of “God particle”
Book a live interview To book a live or taped interview with Ryszard Stroynowski in the SMU News Broadcast Studio call SMU News at 214-768-7650 or email news@smu.edu. Related links Science as an act...
View ArticleNatGeo: “God Particle” Found? “Historic Milestone” From Higgs Boson Hunters
SMU physicist Stroynowski is a principal investigator in the search for the Higgs boson, and the leader of SMU’s team in the Department of Physics that is working on the experiment. The experimental...
View ArticleThe Telegraph: Cern announcement: after 50 years, the Higgs hunt could be over
SMU postdoctoral researcher Aidan Randle-Conde, SMU Department of Physics, was quoted by the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph. Randle-Conde was quoted for his commentary on the search for the...
View ArticleDallas Observer: How Texas Came Within an Atom’s Breadth of Discovering the...
The Dallas Observer interviewed SMU physicist Ryszard Stroynowski about Texas’ historic role in particle physics before the landmark discovery announced in July of the new fundamental “God particle”...
View ArticleWhite dwarf supernovae are discovered in Virgo Cluster galaxy and in sky area...
Observation of two bright exploding stars improves the astronomical “tape measure” that scientists use to calculate the acceleration of the expansion of the universe Light from two massive stars that...
View ArticleredOrbit: Astronomers Discover White Dwarf Supernovae
The news web site redOrbit has covered the SMU Physics Department’s recent supernovae discoveries. The article, “Astronomers Discover White Dwarf Supernovae,” was published Feb. 27. Light from two...
View ArticleANI News: Exploding stars offer clues to dark energy
The Asian news wire service Asian News International has covered the SMU Physics Department’s recent supernovae discoveries. The article, “Exploding stars offer clues to dark energy,” was published...
View ArticleUPI: Cosmic explosions give dark energy clues
The international news wire service United Press International has covered the SMU Physics Department’s recent supernovae discoveries. The article, “Cosmic explosions give dark energy clues,” was...
View ArticleNOvA neutrino detector in Minnesota records first 3-D particle tracks in...
The NOvA detector, currently under construction in Ash River, Minn., stands about 50 feet tall and 50 feet wide. The completed detector will weigh 14,000 tons. (Credit: Fermilab) What will soon be the...
View ArticleSMU physicists celebrate Nobel Prize for discovery of Higgs boson “god particle”
SMU joins nearly 2,000 physicists from U.S. institutions — including 89 U.S. universities and seven U.S. DOE labs — that participate in discovery experiments Book a live interview To book a live or...
View ArticleNOvA experiment glimpses neutrinos, one of nature’s most abundant, and...
Ghostly particles that constantly bombard us can offer clues to the early moments of our universe Scientists hunting one of nature’s most elusive, yet abundant, elementary particles announced today...
View ArticleSMU Daily Campus: Navigating neutrinos — Professor studies most elusive...
Thomas Coan, an associate professor in the SMU Department of Physics, works with more than 200 scientists around the world to study one of the universe’s most elusive particles — the neutrino.(Photo:...
View ArticleSearch for dark matter covers new ground with CDMS experiment in Minnesota
Scientists report the Cryogenic Dark Matter Experiment has set more stringent limits on light dark matter Book a live interview To book a live or taped interview with Dr. Jodi Cooley in the SMU News...
View ArticleObserved by Texas telescope: Light from huge explosion 12 billion years ago...
Known as a gamma-ray burst, the intense light captured in the night sky resulted from one of the biggest and hottest explosions in the universe, occurring shortly after the Big Bang. Intense light from...
View ArticleDaily Mail: Huge 12 billion-year-old explosion in space has been spotted from...
Armed with images of the burst, astronomers can now analyze the data in order to understand more about the structure of the universe at its infancy The U.K.’s widely read newspaper the Daily Mail...
View ArticleCBS News: See an exploding star from 12 billion years ago
Armed with images of the burst, astronomers can now analyze the data in order to understand more about the structure of the universe at its infancy CBS News covered the astronomy research of physicist...
View ArticleGlobal Post: Light from this 12-billion-year-old explosion just reached Earth
To put the age of the latest discovery into context, scientists believe the Big Bang occurred 13.81 billion years ago. The news service Global Post covered the astronomy research of physicist Robert...
View ArticleDigital Journal: Scientists spot 12-billion-year-old star burst
A star exploded billions of years back, but the light of this explosion has just reached the earth, allowing scientists to peep into the past of the universe The news web site digitaljournal.com...
View ArticleHouston Chronicle: Texas scientists spot 12-billion-year old star explosion
“You’re looking at things a long time ago in the universe, you can get a sense for the movie of the universe,” said Kehoe. “It’s the evolution of the universe.” The Texas newspaper the Houston...
View ArticleHunt for dark matter takes physicists deep below earth’s surface, where WIMPS...
The next-generation of the Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search, called SuperCDMS, is slated for construction at SNOLAB, an underground laboratory in Ontario, Canada SuperCDMS at SNOLAB Dark matter makes...
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